Stepping in and out of the world of LJ
Someone close to me wrote something in his journal. My spouse told me about it and I read it. The realization for me was that there are some things that I still need to get onto LJ to read now and then. The person needs to be able to write it down, get it out in front of themselves and have it out before others in order to work on the issues at hand. In this case, since I speak to the person regularly, it seems another dimension of communication. Not an evation, not a replacement for face to face interaction or a way to manipulate. I also am missing being able to express myself in writing. I just still don't want this to be a replacement for talking or IMing with me or meeting in person. It may be just my impression but that's okay because this is MY journal, that I was going more than 1/2 way in the maintenance of many relationships and that letting go was a healthy thing for me to do. It let me know who was truly there and who had already left or wasn't that into me anymore OR just being tolerant because of my spouse. It's a lonelier space but a much more real one.